Books by Hillel Schwartz
The French prophets in England [microform] : a social history of a millenanian group in the early eighteenth century /
Thesis.--Yale University, 1974. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 512-568). Microfilm o... more Thesis.--Yale University, 1974. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 512-568). Microfilm of typescript.
La cultura de la copia : parecidos sorprendentes, facsímiles insólitos / H. Schwartz ; tr. por Manuel Talens
Traducción de: The Culture of the Copy. Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
Long Days Last Days: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Those at the Bedside
The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
Ko Un: Abiding Places, Korea South & North
Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies, and Fat
Century's End: A Cultural History of the Fin de Siecle from the 990s through the 1990s
The French Prophets: The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England
Uploaded in two parts, first and second half of this short monograph, which is now entirely out o... more Uploaded in two parts, first and second half of this short monograph, which is now entirely out of print
Papers by Hillel Schwartz
Advances in Physiotherapy, 2005
This paper corrects three widely held misunderstandings about Maxent when used in common sense re... more This paper corrects three widely held misunderstandings about Maxent when used in common sense reasoning: That it is language dependent; That it produces objective facts; That it subsumes, and so is at least as untenable as, the paradox-ridden Principle of Insufficient Reason.
A bibliography of the published work, curated exhibitions, recorded talks,
and collaborations of ... more A bibliography of the published work, curated exhibitions, recorded talks,
and collaborations of the art historian and activist David Kunzle.
Dimensions, 1996
Another, more philosophical, look at the ongoing debate about the relevance of genes affecting ob... more Another, more philosophical, look at the ongoing debate about the relevance of genes affecting obesity.
Dimensions, 1994
In Dimensions #59 by Hillel Schwartz "In summer," wrote the German literary philosopher Walter Be... more In Dimensions #59 by Hillel Schwartz "In summer," wrote the German literary philosopher Walter Benjamin, "fat people are conspicuous, in winter thin." This was one of a series of aphorisms from a highly aphoristic essay entitled "One-Way Street." German caricaturists of the 1920s, during the middle of which Benjamin wrote his essay, played fast and loose with the fat and the thin, depicting fat men as war-profiteers or fat-cat industrialists, thin men as Bolsheviks or starving artists, fat women as madames, thin women as starving whores. Inflation and bitter political feuds would take the Weimar Republic into the Depression sooner and more precipitously than any other European nation, and eventually into a Nazi winter from which would come, in the end, the most terrifying pictures of World War II: concentration camp survivors too thin, really, to be alive. Cultural anthropologists and archeologists, digging through the levels of midden heaps left by past civilizations, find that at the tag-ends of civilizations, their dendritus and deposits of garbage are relatively barren and uninformative. Why? Because then and only then, trying to forestall an unwelcome end, the people with ever greater thoroughness recycle what they had for centuries simply tossed away. The more barren the midden heap, the more hard-pressed the social and political economy. The fat that cushions the human skeleton may be, biologically, a reserve against scarcity, but its conspicuousness is, I would argue, less a question of medicine or aesthetics than of Time. The fat and the thin may be alternately conspicuous in tandem with alternating seasons of dearth and plenty, as Benjamin suggests. I figure, more radically, that one could reasonably plot the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations according to the degree of attention they pay to fatness and to thinness. It would be no simple-minded correlation such as has been mouthed so often by media consultants. The historical record does not show, across cultures and continents, that wealthy or well-fed societies necessarily prefer thin people to fat, or conversely that poor or poorly-fed societies prefer fat people to thin. Indeed, in most societies there are class distinctions as well as age, gender, caste, and ethnic distinctions that make any determination of ideals of visible healthfulness and physical beauty bewilderingly complex.
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Books by Hillel Schwartz
Papers by Hillel Schwartz
and collaborations of the art historian and activist David Kunzle.
and collaborations of the art historian and activist David Kunzle.
Rochelle Gurstein, The Repeal of Reticence; James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me; H Sidky, Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease; Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, and Hubert I. Dreyfus, Disclosing New Worlds; Nicholas Thomas, In Oceania
Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance, by Liana LeFaivre (MIT Press, 1997)
Narrative of the Incas by Juan de Betanzos, translated and edited by Roland Hamilton & Dana Buchanan ( U Texas, 1996)
Disposession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Mass., 1650-1790, by Jean M. O'Brien, (Cambridge U, 1997)
Paris and the Anarchists: Aesthetes and Subversives During the Fin de Siecle, by Alexander Varias (St. Martin's, 1996)
Zion City, Illinois: Twentieth-Century Utopia, by Philip Cook,
(Syracuse University, 1996)
Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound, by Leo Beraneck (Acoustical Society of America, 1996)
The Road That Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile, by Ann M. Pendleton-Julian (MIT, 1996)
The bibliography has to do with the history of the Samaritans, the iconographic tradition of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and exegetical and literary materials about the parable.